Toby Kurien is an Electronics Engineer with over 15 years of software development experience in various platforms and languages, such as Java, C, Ruby and JavaScript. He has programmed in basic on an 8086 PC, assembly language on a PC and on a PIC microcontroller, wrote an IDE in Turbo Pascal, an IRC client in C++, real-time digital audio processing software for a 486SX33, Windows miniport drivers and embedded firmware for PCI satellite receivers and set-top box satellite decoders, a real-time web-based steel plant monitoring system utilizing Java applets (back in 1998), a content management system in Cold Fusion, an even more advanced one in Java, web based home automation software, social networking applications in Ruby On Rails, mobile websites in Python using Django, as well as several native Android apps.

In 2001 he co-founded a web development company called Cambrient (currently Native). In 2009 he left to create some web startups and pursue Android development as a freelancer. Toby Kurien currently has over 2.5 years of development experience on Android. His goal is to use first world technology to help solve third world problems.